Word: 8th
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...8th Annual Championship Regatta...
Some of the worst fighting of the war occurred over the New Year's weekend in the city of Mashhad, with its blue mosque and shrine to the 8th century Shi'ite Imam Reza, the holiest sites in Iran. "Three days after the rioting," reported TIME Correspondent Roland Flamini, "gutted buildings smoldered in Mashhad, and burned-out trucks and cars littered the semideserted streets. Though the city seemed calm, the army, which had withdrawn to barracks, did not appear in control. A bus full of foreign journalists who had been flown from Tehran was escorted by five truckloads...
...South Carolina offered its residents the unique option of honoring either King on January 15th, Robert E. Lee, the Confederate general on January 19th or Jefferson Davis, former president of the Confederacy, on June 3rd. And Tennesseans have even more important things on their minds as they consider January 8th a state holiday in honor of the late rock and roll king Elvis Presley...
...first came under attack, she was frequently portrayed as a latter-day Empress Wu Tse-t'ien, whose career began in the 7th century as a 13-year-old court concubine and ended in an orgy of sex and assassination. Another execrated royal personage is the 8th century Emperor Hsüan Tsung, who was hopelessly enamored of a shapely concubine, Yang Kuei-fei. With characteristic Chinese panache, he built a summer palace for her with 16 bathing pools, where the lady was wont to wash her statuesque limbs under the Emperor's besotted gaze...
...effect, renewing a relationship that had flourished for a millennium. Between the 5th and 8th centuries, Japan imported from China its ideographic writing, its Buddhist religion, its form of government organization and codes of law. Chinese civilization deeply influenced Japanese painting, music and architecture. Still, both nations remained distinct and sometimes antagonistic. Teng's visit was a symbol of conciliation...